Massimo De Santis

Massimo De Santis (born 8 April 1962) is an Italian football referee. De Santis was born in Tivoli, Lazio. In addition to being a referee, he is a police constable in Rome. De Santis speaks Italian and English. His first international game was on 1 January 2000. He was an official at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.[1]

De Santis was selected as Italy's refereeing representative at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, but was barred by the Italian Football Federation due to the Serie A match fixing scandal in 2006.[2] In July 2006, De Santis was banned for four years from football and given a 23-month prison sentence in November 2011;[3] after the March 2015 acquittals of everyone involved in the scandal, De Santis was the only one whose one-year suspended sentence was confirmed.[4]

De Santis strongly denied guilt, saying "If I committed any offences I did so on the field of play, if mistakes were made - but then we would have to try all the referees in the history of the game. I'm not taking this charge lying down. I expect justice."[5]

References
  1. DE SANTIS Massimo at FIFA.com
  2. Italians withdraw World Cup ref, BBC Sport, 13 May 2006
  3. "Appello: Juve in B a meno 17 Milan, Fiorentina e Lazio in A" (in Italian). gazzetta.it. 25 July 2006.
  4. "Supreme Court Acquits Moggi, Giraudo and Referees". corriere.it. 24 March 2015.
  5. Top clubs, 26 defendants stand accused, Daily-Calcio.com
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